“Several years ago, a football shattered my basement window.
I boarded it up, thinking I'd get to it someday. The plan was to upgrade to
energy-efficient windows for the whole house, but the price was out of reach. The
broken window ate at me for years. I had to address it, but I was paralyzed. Then
my wife changed jobs and we had to move. I couldn’t sell a house with a broken
window. I thought, "What the heck. I have to pay for it anyway." I sprayed
the rusted frame with WD-40 and gave it a tug. To my astonishment, it moved. I
pulled the window out and took it downtown. It was $12. I could have fixed it the
day it happened. But I let it haunt me for years, shutting out light and
letting in bugs. It didn't need to be the most efficient. It just needed to be
a window. Doing a thing is often less painful than thinking about it.” – Nathan
Howe
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